Chapter 272 Angelica

In mid-May, Yang Qixuan and his wife escorted Li Tengkong and Li Jilan to Wangwushan and visited Princess Yuzhen before returning to Yanshi County.

At this time, the winter wheat is almost ripe, and the wheat fields along the river appear golden, giving people a sense of harvest.

Yang Qixuan was eager to return home, hoping to finish his errands and return to Chang'an as soon as possible. As soon as he entered the city, he went to the county office to meet Xue Bai. This time, Xue Bai did not keep him waiting for too long. After the announcement, he immediately invited him to meet at the flower hall.

In the flower hall, Xue Bai was found talking with two old men. None of them were wearing official uniforms, and their faces were very serious.

"You two, go down."

Yang Qixuan thought they were officials and waved his hand casually, wanting to talk to Xue Bai alone. Unexpectedly, both old men were unmoved, and he couldn't help but frown.

"Can't you hear me? Let you go out."

One of the old men opened his mouth and said: "I am the new Prime Minister of Yanshi County, Yan Chunqing."

"Is this arranged?" Yang Qixuan smiled proudly, ignored Yan Chunqing, and said to Xue Bai: "Look, the Right Prime Minister's Office can arrange whoever you want to be the county magistrate."

In one sentence, the three people in the flower hall did not answer. They all raised their lips with a slight smile, as if they thought it was funny.

"Please ask Yan County Cheng to go out first. Xue Bai and I have something important to discuss." Yang Qixuan looked at the other old man and said, "Yan County Cheng's staff, right? Please."

"Miao Jinqing, the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs."

Yang Qi

There is a certain philistine look in Qing's eyes.

In order to prevent Yang Qixuan from making more embarrassments, Miao Jinqing continued: "I came here at the request of the Right Prime Minister."

"Are you following the wishes of your right prime minister? Then I..."

"Yang Lang, please sit down."

Obviously, the situation changed very quickly, and it was no longer something Yang Qixuan, a loser, could control, so Li Linfu sent Miao Jinqing to Yanshi County again.

Miao Jinqing and Xue Bai had met once in Tongguan. At that time, he had just got rid of the influence of "pulling Bai to be the number one scholar" and returned to the capital, while Xue Bai was preparing to go to Yanshi. He did not expect to see each other so soon.

In fact, he only arrived not long before Yang Qixuan, and the topic had just started.

"Xue Lang was selected as a Jinshi and awarded an official position as an official slave. He has received some kindness from his right minister. Now he is too ungrateful, isn't he?"

Yang Qixuan was confused when he heard this, but he nodded again and again.

Xue Bai said: "Why did Mr. Miao say this?"

"When you asked for an official position, you promised to thoroughly investigate the traitors in the court, but now you have colluded with the king, Zhao Fengzhang and others to slander the right prime minister with ulterior motives."

"..."

Yang Qixuan listened for a long time before he knew what happened.

Xue Bai proposed conditions to both parties and arranged for Yan Chunqing to be the magistrate of Yanshi County. As a result, Yan Chunqing's superior officer, Zhao Fengzhang, sued the right minister for more than 20 serious crimes.

So, no matter what the truth is, in the eyes of outsiders, Wang Zhi, Zhao Fengzhang, Yan Chunqing, and Xue Bai all seem to be colluding.

"Damn it!"

Yang Qixuan was filled with indignation when he heard this. He stood up and shouted angrily: "Xue Bai, you have gone too far!"

Faced with this accusation, Xue Bai didn't take it seriously. Since Li Linfu just sent someone to talk, we know that he didn't do anything too excessive, otherwise he wouldn't be so polite.

"The official position of Yanxian County Prime Minister was arranged by Wang He, and the complaint against Zhao Fengzhang was also done by Wang He. One of the purposes was to create the false impression that I had joined forces with him. If the right minister believed it, he would be fooled."

Xue Bai said this unhurriedly, turned to look at Yang Qixuan, and said: "I guess the right prime minister will not be so unwise."

Yang Qixuan was still acting angry and wanted to put pressure on Xue Bai, but he couldn't help but feel embarrassed after hearing this.

Miao Jinqing had no choice but to come to the rescue again and said: "Whether it's a false impression or not, the evidence will speak for itself."

As he spoke, he looked at Yan Chunqing.

"Before Zhao Fengzhang falsely accused the right prime minister, he forged several pieces of evidence and placed them in the warehouse of Danzhou Prefecture. However, when he was arrested, these forged evidence disappeared. On that day, only Yan County Prime Minister went to him

Farewell, I wonder if you know about this?"

Yan Chunqing was about to deny it.

Xue Bai already responded: "The Prime Minister of Yan County will cooperate with the search."

Yan Chunqing was a little surprised. He turned to look at Xue Bai and wanted to speak, but because of Xue Bai's determined look and strong aura, he did not object in person.

Miao Jinqing was quite satisfied to receive such a statement just after arriving, so he asked again: "By the way, what is the source of the Lishan case?"

Xue Bai waved his hands and said nothing, "Miao Gong and Brother Yang are tired from traveling and traveling, so they should take a rest first."

…

After seeing off the two people sent by Youxiang Mansion, the Yanshi County Magistrate, the County Lieutenant continued to sit in the flower hall.

Yan Chunqing observed Xue Bai's expression and thought that this young man was Yan Zhenqing's disciple and son-in-law, and his character must be trustworthy.

He then asked: "Why should we hand over the evidence left by Governor Zhao?"

Xue Bai was very calm and asked: "Is the evidence useful?"

Yan Chunqing said: "Others mentioned Zhao Fengzhang, the prefect of Danzhou, and said that he was Wang Xuan's confidant. Because he had gone too far in collecting the rent owed by the people in recent years, he also had uneasy conscience. This time he thought he had an opportunity to purge the officials.

, reorganized the imperial court, and just decided to file a complaint. The evidence was indeed given by Wang He, and only Wang He can have such evidence regarding the corruption records of the right ministers in these years."

"Yes, but what I'm asking is is it useful?"

Xue Bai's tone was a bit strong, and he had the confidence to do so. After all, he was the one who recommended Yan Chunqing to the official position, and he held the power of Yanshi County.

By dealing with a troublesome matter, it is the time when the relationship between the two people can be established. Xue Bai must take the initiative.

Yan Chunqing was proud, but had suffered setbacks in his life, so he didn't mind this matter. He muttered: "If this evidence is useless, Genu will not send a minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to Yanshi, right?"

"Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, not Supervisory Censor." Xue Bai said: "Miao Jinqing came for me, and Li Linfu wanted my statement."

These words were crazy, and Yan Chunqing was stunned for a moment, but he didn't believe it. Since he entered the officialdom, he had only served as a local official, and he really didn't know much about the struggle at the court level.

Xue Bai said: "Li Linfu dared to order someone to kill Zhao Fengzhang directly with a stick. This is his confidence. He doesn't care at all about the evidence given by Wang Feng. Since it is useless, we might as well hand it over."

"But if you do this, you will miss a good opportunity to deal with the traitor." Yan Chunqing sighed.

When he said this, he didn't think Xue Bai could say anything that would convince him to hand over the evidence left by Zhao Fengzhang.

Xue Bai was not in a hurry to convince him, but instead pondered, and finally murmured: "Will Datang be better off if we deal with the traitor?"

"Of course..."

"Yan Gong thinks who can be replaced as prime minister in the court now to wipe out these bad policies?"

Yan Chunqing said: "It is precisely because Li Linfu got rid of all the virtuous people."

"But now that Li Linfu is getting rid of Li Linfu according to Wang's wish, it is Wang who will be the prime minister."

Yan Chunqing was speechless, but it was not because he was convinced by Xue Bai, but because he suddenly felt confused and began to think about some questions that he had never thought of before.

Xue Bai said: "This matter has nothing to do with justice. It's just a fight for power. We don't need to participate. Hand over the evidence and seize the time to govern Yanshi."

Yan Chunqing was silent for a long time, then finally nodded and obeyed Xue Bai's arrangement.

Xue Bai was very pleased with this and quickly chatted with him about business matters.

"This year is not going to be good. There may be some disasters after autumn, but all the food in the charity warehouses in Yanshi County has been stolen..."

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The next day, Miao Jinqing looked through the books handed over by Yan Chunqing and understood Xue Bai's attitude.

But he was still not satisfied and asked: "Xue Lang thinks that several cases in Yanshi are related to the transfer envoy?"

This is still to accuse Wang Zhi of treason.

Xue Bai was never interested in this matter and said: "As a humble official, I don't know much about this. But now Mr. Xing, the Minister of Household Affairs, is in Luoyang. Maybe Mr. Miao can go and ask him?"

Miao Jinqing saw that he was starting to play around with these twists and turns, but he said bluntly: "What I want here is very simple. I want to find out Wang Fei's crime of blaming Anlu Mountain."

Xue Bai said: "I remember that when Duke Miao selected Zhang Xi as the number one scholar, it was An Lushan who reported to the sage that Zhang Xi had no talent and learning, which caused Duke Miao to be demoted."

Miao Jinqing stroked his beard and said: "It can be seen from this that An Lushan is loyal and outspoken. How could he instruct the Gao brothers to do such nonsense?"

If a person has no personal ethics, no matter how famous he is, he will still be looked down upon. Xue Bai looked at Miao Jinqing again, with a slight contempt in his eyes that was not easy to detect.

"But the case has already been submitted to the imperial court. If you want to change it, my words will not count, and Miao Gong's words will not count either."

"The right Prime Minister only wants results."

"Then there must be a witness to lead the case of the Gao brothers to Wang Xian." Xue Bai pondered and said slowly: "Henan Shaoyin Linghu Tao, is the weight enough?"

"Linghu Tao?"

Xue Bai said: "Linghu Tao has a clan brother named Linghu Chao, and his daughter eloped with Gao Shang. Gao Shang secretly caused trouble in Henan Prefecture through this relationship."

Miao Jinqing asked: "Why aren't these in the files?"

"Gao Shang is from Anlushan. The yamen did not dare to make a big fuss, so they suppressed all the news in order to minimize the big issue."

These words made Miao Jinqing keenly aware that something was wrong.

As the Shaoyin of Henan Province, Linghu Tao, even if he was not considered to be the right prime minister, at least had to obey the official documents of the right prime minister, but he concealed this.
To be continued...